Our long-term aim is a detailed study of the manufacture of wootz (the so-called Damascus steel)a high-C% cast steel which was very slowly cooled and very carefully forged so as to preserve asurface pattern (of cementite particles) which was a visible indicator of the blades metallurgy.These patterns have often been lost from sight over time, but neutron diffraction will generallyshow up anisotropy in the cementite which indicates a hidden pattern. The extent of anisotropycan vary, for reasons which we are investigating. One factor may be the temperature of forgingwhich converts faceted to globular cementite. We have obtained six wootz fragments upon whichmetallography has already been carried out, and we hope to find out whether there is a correlationbetween the morphology of the cementite and the anisotropy as determined by neutron diffraction.